I was diagnosed with diabetes when I applied for life insurance in 1999. I immediately changed my diet and started taking medication regularly to regulate my sugar. Despite my changes, my health and well-being slowly declined until 2010. I was a professional poker player, but I would miss things that made me less competitive. I had arthritis in my knees and when Jerry Buss told me there was no cure, I started thinking I should consider moving to a single story house. I told my endocrinologist that I was experiencing severe pain in my feet (neuropathy I later found out). He told me that, “diabetes is a progressive disease; there is no cure; always keep your feet covered.” I read that neuropathy leads to the loss of feeling and you can cut your feet and not know it, hence the reason for keeping your feet covered. My doctor wasn’t particularly good at explaining things to me. Doing nothing wasn’t satisfactory for me so I would get excruciatingly painful foot massages every few months. I would twist and squirm and tears would flow as my face grimaced from the pain. If torture was going to be worse than this, I decided I would spare myself the pain and just give up whatever information they wanted. It’s 2010 and my triplets are only 10 years old. We had just gone through the housing market collapse and the value of my house dropped by half. Horror stories were in the news such as the father in an upscale neighborhood that had lost everything and went home to murder his 2 children and wife before killing himself. It’s cowardly and unforgivable to deny his children their opportunity to make a life for themselves just because he was giving up. Quitting has never been in my mind-set so despite my health problems, I knew I would just have to man up and find a way. In the spring of 2010, Scott Momii who was one of the founders of Cellgevity Inc. along with Dr. Scott Nagasawa and Herbert T. Nagasawa PhD. told me that Max International, who had bought out our company, was going to launch MaxOne in October of that year. I had invested in the company a few years earlier, but I had no idea what it did. I remember during the presentation; it was all I could do to stay awake much less understand it. It sounded like Greek. My good friend Stephen Wolff said it sounded like a good idea to invest, so we did. I now asked Scott, what the product did? He said it increases your glutathione, which now I had to ask him to write it down. I remember saying it over and over to remember it. I immediately googled glutathione and the amount of information was unbelievable. Through surfing, I discovered that diabetes was caused by glutathione deficiency. I also saw that glutathione deficiency increased around the age of 40. Lifestyle also depleted glutathione levels. I didn’t smoke but I was very guilty of alcohol consumption and drinking gobs of coffee. Sleep deprivation was also a major cause of glutathione depletion. Those long poker sessions, sometimes lasting as long as 7 days was now officially bad for my health. 3 days was normal. Looking back, I could have been pre-diabetic in my late 30’s